Booby Gannet
Booby Gannet (Sula leucogaster) — The Birds of America (Pl. CCVII) · John James Audubon, engraved by Robert Havell Jr. · 1834.
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Where it works
Audubon's Booby Gannet, a large chocolate-brown seabird with a white belly and pale yellow bill, perched on a driftwood stump above a pale blue sea, filling the sheet. Coastal and strong for a beach house, bathroom or bedroom on white or navy at 24×36 in black, with his Noddy Tern.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Antique natural-history plate
- Era
- 1827–1848 (Audubon)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- chocolate brown, white, cornflower blue, butter yellow
- Mood
- bold, airy
- Rooms
- bedroom, bathroom, nursery, kids room
- Good gift for
- bird lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. A slim black or natural wood frame right to the plate edge; the plate's own margin frames the subject. Also available gallery-wrapped on canvas, ready to hang with no frame.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other bird prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
Shipping & returns
About this design
The Madten promise
The cream specimen edition
The same plate set on a soft cream ground with a typeset specimen label — a gallery-ready print.



























